Museums Quotes

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In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums. — Janet Flanner
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Graffiti has more chance of meaning something or changing stuff… — Banksy
The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I'm taking now. We don't have an oral guide, we have… — Daniel Barenboim
Many people will say, well, clothes should be worn; but I think people can look at them in public, like seeing a film. I think… — Issey Miyake
The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to… — Edgar Degas
Wealth is, for most people, the only honest and likely path to liberty. With money comes power over the world. Men are freed from drudgery,… — P.J. O'Rourke
I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is… — Daniel Libeskind
I abide in a goodly Museum, Frequented by sages profound: 'Tis a kind of strange mausoleum, Where the beasts that have vanished abound. There's a… — May Kendall
Gas Lights - Without Oil, Tallow, Wicks or Smoke. It is not necessary to invite attention to the gas lights by which my salon of… — Rembrandt Peale
MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals. — Ambrose Bierce
Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, the same frozen quality. — Michel Leiris
Pele should go back to the museum. — Diego Maradona
For all the casual slurs about 'cultural imperialism', British imperialists were more interested in other cultures than anybody before or since, and, if they hadn't… — Mark Steyn
Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon to be preserved in a museum. Only when a practitioner finds the spring of wisdom in his… — Nhat Hanh
I was just down in Dallas, Texas...the Assassination Museum...it's really accurate, you know, 'cause Oswald's not in it. — Bill Hicks
Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never the completed version of the… — W. Eugene Smith
I canâ€™t stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they were pieces of… — W. Eugene Smith
What I think about when I frequent the Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan [Museum of Art], and I look at these artifacts that are… — Nick Cave
We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the… — Terence McKenna
Erudite and entertaining, Max Anderson is the perfect tour guide to the world of art. The Quality Instinct is both educational and enlightening from start… — Daniel Silva

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